In a survey which asks for religion you will typically see atheist or atheist/agnostic as an option. I personally don't like seeing them grouped, they really aren't the same thing at all. At least atheists have a belief system. Come on agnostics, grow some balls and take a stand.

Whether you believe atheism is an official religion or not is largely irrelevant to the discussion.

The point is these atheists who want religious symbols and the like removed from government property are forcing the government to follow THEIR beliefs, which effective establishes atheism as the "national religion", (whether you believe it's a religion or not, it has the same effect).

That is not any more right than establishing any other religion as a "national religion" and yet it is exactly what many of the atheists desire - to effective establish atheism as a de facto "national religion" endorsed by the government on the basis the government can't defend any other beliefs so it somehow "must" defend a lack of belief, which is the same as atheism.

The atheists are like so many groups throughout history - they don't want equality, they want SUPERIORITY. It's wrong and people need to take a stand against their ridiculous agenda to see it happen. No establishment of religion includes no establishment of atheism.

Give everyone EQUAL ability to display their religious symbols and the like on government property instead and watch the atheists blow a gasket since they have nothing to display as they believe in nothing except trying to ruin other people's lives.

Bullshit. Atheists aren't asking for anything other than that the government follows the constitution. There is no national religion and it needs to stay that way. Religious displays on public property are de facto endorsements. You are free to put whatever religious display you want on private property.

Atheists ARE asking for something the government specifically wants to avoid and the constitution requires it to avoid - the establishment of a "national religion".

There is no national religion, and I agree it should stay that way. The difference is many of these atheists actually WANT there to be a "national religion" - they simply want that "religion" to be atheism.

If you ban or eliminate all religious activity having to do with government including religious symbols and the like, then you are effectively endorsing atheism, and that is the same as endorsing any other religion and should not be allowed.

Banning all religious endorsements is a de facto endorsement for atheism. It is just as wrong as promoting any other single set of beliefs.

Every religion should be on equal ground. The constitution shouldn't give atheists more rights to what they believe when it comes to the government.

Atheists ARE asking for something the government specifically wants to avoid and the constitution requires it to avoid - the establishment of a "national religion".

There is no national religion, and I agree it should stay that way. The difference is many of these atheists actually WANT there to be a "national religion" - they simply want that "religion" to be atheism.

Atheism is not a religion. It is the absence of religion.

Every religion should be on equal ground. The constitution shouldn't give atheists more rights to what they believe when it comes to the government.

Every religion can only be on equal ground if the government refuses to endorse any religion.

The system shouldn't allow the removal of all religious symbols and the like but rather EQUALITY among all of them.

This would fulfill the constitutional requirement of not establishing a national religion because everyone would get equal treatment.

That doesn't satisfy the atheists, though, because they don't want equal treatment. They want their beliefs to be supported by the government and they think they've found a way to make it happen.

I think I'm going to join a group to sue the government for endorsing atheism if they ban all religious symbols and practices on government property on the basis it is an endorsement of a system of beliefs (atheism) that is so similar to endorsing a religion that there is no way to discern a difference. Let the atheists have some of their own medicine when they're named in the suit too if I can encourage anyone to make it happen.